FEEL GOOD FRIDAY CHALLENGE!

This weeks FEEL GOOD FRIDAY challenge requires your help again. If you are a member of our school community in any way. Child, Parent, Staff member, Governor, Trust member,Community member who’s seen our blog – we need your help.

We want photos of all of you holding a poster saying ‘here for you’. This can be as fancy or plain as you wish to make it.

Jersey is sharing an example below

Please send your photos to [email protected] by 3pm Thursday (2.4.2020)

Thanks for keeping all of our spirits up during the uncertain time.

 

Week 2 plans for home learning

As you will know next week and the week after should have been the Easter holidays. However, Green Top will remain open to key worker families. Therefore there will still be people available to answer your calls, texts and emails Monday to Friday 8am-5pm.

We will be continuing with Google hangouts and Google classroom in the same way we have this week and there will still be work set for English and Maths skills lessons daily. In addition there will be fun activities to complete as part of the Expedition learning plans. It would be great to catch up with you using one of these tools each day. We encourage you to have some down time too but don’t want to lose your enthusiasm and engagement in the home learning success we’ve had this week. It is such an uncertain time and all staff, children and parents who’ve spoken to me have really valued the positive impact the communication with friends and staff has had on the Green Top children and wider community. Unfortunately, no one knows how long this period of enforced school closure will last for and lots of you have asked me for more ideas of things to do at home when you’re stuck in the house.

We’d like to hear from you as often as possible and therefore will continue with our safe and well checks next week. As always if you need to talk or have anything to ask we’re at the end of the phone, email or text service.

Hope to see you all in hangouts or google classroom next week, send your teachers/phase leaders lots of photos too and look out for next weeks challenge for feel good Friday.

Thanks

Mrs Claira Salter

Class 13’s Learning Legend

Thomas Matthews is today’s learning legend for his awesome writing summarising a short video. Thomas used excellent vocabulary and a variety of features from our Year 5 writing rubric to describe the characters in the clip. Well done Super Star!!

Amelia’s AWESOME home learning! 💚

Amelia has completed some fantastic pieces of work every day this week. Mum has sent me lots of photographs of her hard work. I’m so proud of how motivated and determined you are being and you’ve cheered me so much on hangouts with how happy you are with your learning! Here are just a few photographs of Amelias busy week!

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Class 13 Learning Legend!

Some super distance learning again today, I’ve loved seeing all your photographs of your work you have done at home! I could have chosen lots of learning legends but today’s is Emily Rothwell. Emily has been super motivated completing all of her  slides and then also completed an activity from the menu!
Emily has written a detailed set of instructions, including many features from the rubric, based on sewing a planet which the children have completed in G-Block.

Awesome Emily – Well done, I’m sure Mrs Green will be very proud of this too! 🙂

 

First day of Awesome Home Learning!

Well done to everyone in Class 13 that have been Stickability Stan’s on their first day of online learning! I’ve enjoyed looking at all your independent work and thank you for all the photographs of the work that you have completed at home – as always you make me so proud!!

Here are some pictures of Evan, Emily, Neve and Amelia’s work from today.

Green Top Home school suggested timetable

In order to ensure we are in touch with all of our students whilst they are self isolating or not attending school due to the closure notice. We have created a web page on our website ‘home learning portal’ (https://sites.google.com/greentopschool.co.uk/home-learning-menu/home) which will be regularly updated.
In addition, teachers will be inviting children in F2-Y6 into the ‘google classroom’ to work on activities (these will also be hosted on our home learning page.) Reception children will have a pack sent home with an exercise book and pencil enclosed tomorrow after school to complete their activities in from next week if working at home.
There will also be sessions for teaching staff in Y1-Y6 to ‘hangout’ using google hangouts through their school log ins and these times will be communicated via the school blog but all be in a morning (9am / 9.30am / 10am OR 2pm / 2.30pm). In order to ensure we are in communication with children whilst they are not at school we will follow the following protocols for communication.
1st check
Online learning interaction with a class teacher. 
 
2nd check (if first check not achieved by 11am)
Text to main mobile number asking to make contact via email or learning action by 12pm
 
3rd check (if second check not achieved by 1pm)
Phone Call Home to contacts in order (speaking to the child if possible).
Final check (if necessary)
Home visit by 2 staff
Finally, we have, and will continue to, provide our whole curriculum on the ‘Our Expeditions’ tab of the school website. As the time progresses we will populate the case studies within our Summer Expeditions to allow for children to learn at home.
Any child who would like an exercise book and pencil to record their work in is welcome to do so please ask class teachers.
Thanks

Multiplication Madness!!

Today we revised our knowledge of multiplying, using numbers of up to 4 digits by 2 digits! The children created their numbers using dice and used column method to solve the calculations! Well done everyone you blew my socks off with how accurate your multiplication is.